Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-05 Thread John Kitchin
Matt Lundin writes: > Hi John, > > John Kitchin writes: > >> If a reference type is not listed in the CSL, it also will not be >> supported by CSL I suppose. > > How is this different than biblatex or bibtex? A user could just modify > the style or put in a request with a maintainer. Its not di

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-05 Thread Matt Lundin
Hi John, John Kitchin writes: > If a reference type is not listed in the CSL, it also will not be > supported by CSL I suppose. How is this different than biblatex or bibtex? A user could just modify the style or put in a request with a maintainer. > I also suppose the CSL must be backend spe

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-04 Thread John Kitchin
> > Yes. And CSL and biblatex are far more complex and robust than bibtex. > :) I use biblatex (biblatex-chicago), which finally gives those of us in > the humanities robust automation of complex footnote styles. One of my > dreams for citation processing in org mode is to be able to achieve in >

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-04 Thread Matt Lundin
Hi John, John Kitchin writes: > > I am not yet convinced a citation processor will get us where we > want > > because of the complexity of the external dependencies, and the > > potential/probable need for us to define new CSL files for > different > > backends, or at a m

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-04 Thread John Kitchin
> > I am not yet convinced a citation processor will get us where we want > > because of the complexity of the external dependencies, and the > > potential/probable need for us to define new CSL files for different > > backends, or at a minimum for org-formatted citations and > > bibliographies. Ha

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-04 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 3 Dec 2015 at 18:31, John Kitchin wrote: > I clearly had some super important academic work to do today, so instead > I played around with citations ;) Hey, I am doing just that right now ;-) > I am not yet convinced a citation processor will get us where we want > because of the co

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread Matt Lundin
John Kitchin writes: > > I am not yet convinced a citation processor will get us where we want > because of the complexity of the external dependencies, and the > potential/probable need for us to define new CSL files for different > backends, or at a minimum for org-formatted citations and > bibl

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread John Kitchin
>> What do you think? > > My guess is that it is orders of magnitudes harder with author (year) and > footnotes and whatnot. footnotes... The only place I can see this is in org/odt export. In org I can see it ok with the approach I described. For odt, I guess it would be about the same, if you kn

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread Rasmus
John Kitchin writes: > I clearly had some super important academic work to do today, so instead > I played around with citations ;) > > I am not yet convinced a citation processor will get us where we want > because of the complexity of the external dependencies, and the > potential/probable need

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread John Kitchin
I clearly had some super important academic work to do today, so instead I played around with citations ;) I am not yet convinced a citation processor will get us where we want because of the complexity of the external dependencies, and the potential/probable need for us to define new CSL files fo

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread Rasmus
Hi, Thomas S. Dye writes: > At the risk of introducing noise, I've long wondered if tex4ht might > help with citation processing in Org mode? IIUC, tex4ht uses the > device-independent dvi file produced by TeX to make html, odt, and other > formats. With an Org mode that relied on tex4ht, users

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread Matt Lundin
Matt Lundin writes: > > If we chose node, we could try to package the wrapper script so it can > be installed via npm. Then the installation process would be: > > a) install node > b) npm install citeproc-js-wrapper [or whatever] I forgot. They would need to install npm as well. Matt

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread Matt Lundin
Hi Richard, Thanks so much for this very helpful explanation! Richard Lawrence writes: > Hi Matt and all, > > Matt Lundin writes: > >> But for bibtex users, wouldn't there presumably have to be another >> zotero plugin that would allow for live, automated importing of bibtex >> into zotero? (

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread Thomas S . Dye
Aloha all, At the risk of introducing noise, I've long wondered if tex4ht might help with citation processing in Org mode? IIUC, tex4ht uses the device-independent dvi file produced by TeX to make html, odt, and other formats. With an Org mode that relied on tex4ht, users would use BibTeX bibliog

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Matt and all, Matt Lundin writes: > But for bibtex users, wouldn't there presumably have to be another > zotero plugin that would allow for live, automated importing of bibtex > into zotero? (If anyone knows whether such a plugin exists, please do > let me know.) Well, my hope is that this c

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread Matt Lundin
Hi Richard, Richard Lawrence writes: > Hi Matt and all, > > Matt Lundin writes: > >> Given these complexities, it seems that if we went the zotero route we >> could end up with a fairly large installation chain (firefox, zotero, >> zotxt, plugin for zotero). And this would require installing i

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-03 Thread Matt Lundin
Christian Wittern writes: > On 2015-12-03 8:27, Matt Lundin wrote: >> Given these complexities, it seems that if we went the zotero route we >> could end up with a fairly large installation chain (firefox, zotero, >> zotxt, plugin for zotero). And this would require installing items from >> multi

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-02 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Matt and all, Matt Lundin writes: > Given these complexities, it seems that if we went the zotero route we > could end up with a fairly large installation chain (firefox, zotero, > zotxt, plugin for zotero). And this would require installing items from > multiple, heterogeneous sources. Well

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-02 Thread Christian Wittern
On 2015-12-03 8:27, Matt Lundin wrote: > Given these complexities, it seems that if we went the zotero route we > could end up with a fairly large installation chain (firefox, zotero, > zotxt, plugin for zotero). And this would require installing items from > multiple, heterogeneous sources. I gues

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-02 Thread Matt Lundin
Richard Lawrence writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> 2. How would I use this starting from an org-bibtex database (which I >>typically export to bibtex)? > > I can envision a couple of possibilities. One simple option would be to > switch to managing your reference database with Zotero, by

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-02 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Rasmus and all, Rasmus writes: > Also, last I checked Zotero also existed as a standalone manager. If this > also works re your points below, using Zotero is a non-issue. There > exists a plugin to keep a bibtex file up to date. I don’t know if it’s > two way, though. I haven't looked int

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-01 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Rasmus wrote: > Hi Richard, > > First, thank you for looking into this. I learned something new from this > > > Pretty much all the other options we have talked about seem like they > > will require multi-step, non-trivial installation procedures ("First > > insta

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-01 Thread Rasmus
Hi Richard, First, thank you for looking into this. I learned something new from this post. Richard Lawrence writes: > 1) It is really easy for users. I generally don’t buy the arguments a reference manager being nice per see. Also, last I checked Zotero also existed as a standalone manager.

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-12-01 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
On Tue, 01-12-2015, at 01:32, John Kitchin wrote: > Martin Yrjölä writes: > >> Maybe two way sync between BibTeX and Zotero would be sufficient for >> power users? I know there is already automatic exporters to BibTex for >> Zotero, but some work needs to be done to make it a two-way sync. > >

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-11-30 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi John and all, Thanks for your input! John Kitchin writes: > This really means you are using bibtex as the reference database > backend, and probably helm-bibtex to insert citations as org-mode links. > Bibliography generation is probably managed by LaTeX/Bibtex. org-ref > mostly provides the

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-11-30 Thread John Kitchin
Martin Yrjölä writes: > Hi Richard. > > Thank you for your work on improving citation support for org-mode. I > have some experiences from using Zotero, but for the moment I'm using > org-ref[1] to manage my citations. This really means you are using bibtex as the reference database backend, and

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-11-30 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear Eric, On Mon, 30-11-2015, at 12:35, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Saturday, 28 Nov 2015 at 12:16, Richard Lawrence wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> For the past few days, I've been looking more closely at using the >> combination of Zotero [1] with Erik Hetzner's zotxt plugin [2] as a >> means of pr

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-11-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Saturday, 28 Nov 2015 at 12:16, Richard Lawrence wrote: > Hi everyone, > > For the past few days, I've been looking more closely at using the > combination of Zotero [1] with Erik Hetzner's zotxt plugin [2] as a > means of processing citations when exporting to non-LaTeX backends. I > am now th

Re: [O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-11-30 Thread Martin Yrjölä
Hi Richard. Thank you for your work on improving citation support for org-mode. I have some experiences from using Zotero, but for the moment I'm using org-ref[1] to manage my citations. Richard Lawrence writes: > For the past few days, I've been looking more closely at using the > combination

[O] Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

2015-11-28 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi everyone, For the past few days, I've been looking more closely at using the combination of Zotero [1] with Erik Hetzner's zotxt plugin [2] as a means of processing citations when exporting to non-LaTeX backends. I am now thinking that this is probably our best option, but I'd like to know wha